
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A Catholic school district in Canada is being applauded for cancelling a touring play about gender identity that is directed to elementary school-aged children as young as five years.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
A courageous family court judge in Kentucky recently released an order stating that he won’t be hearing adoption cases involving same-sex couples because he believes these adoptions are never in the best interests of the child.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The dwindling respect for human life reached a new low this week with the announcement that a jewelry company is now fashioning pendants out of the ashes of “leftover” embryos from in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinics.
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Another teen attempted to kill herself on Facebook on Tuesday night but was saved just in time after viewers – and
Facebook – alerted authorities.
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Today is National Star Wars Day and many of the film’s fans will be offering the movie’s famous greeting ,“May the force be with you,” or its pun for the day, “May the fourth be with you.” Judging by world conditions and the strife that abounds both at home and abroad, we could use some force and power to bring relief, order, and justice to our beleaguered globe.
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The National Day of Prayer was the perfect backdrop for the signing of the Trump Administration’s Religious Liberty Executive Order except that the order itself has disappointed both sides of the debate.
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Citing a long list of questionable associations and inappropriate role modeling for young girls, the Archdiocese of Kansas City has officially cut ties with the Girl Scouts.
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Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean tells a poignant story about the lessons she learned when a surgical “image correction” went wrong.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Even though headlines are screaming, “Free speech for me, but not for thee,” not all of today’s youth have bought into the prevailing call-everyone-who-disagrees-with-me-a-hater movement in America – such as those that are participating in today’s Day of Dialogue.
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Experts are warning parents about a new
Netflix series students are “binge watching” that is based on a novel about a teen who kills herself in a way that many say glorifies suicide.
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